Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Reducción de la desigualdad en América Latina


Ya está a la venta el libro "Falling Inequality in Latin America: Policy Changes and Lessons", editado por Giovanni Andrea Cornia y publicado por Oxford University Press.

En este libro hay muchos trabajos interesantes y uno de ellos (de los trabajos, aunque no necesariamente de los interesantes) es de su servidor en coautoría con Nora Lustig y Raymundo Campos titulado: "The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989-2010". Aquí pueden leer el capítulo introductorio escrito por G.A. Cornia.

Les anexo la tabla de contenidos por si les interesa:

Part I: Inequality Changes and the Surfacing of New Policy Approaches
1: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Recent Distributive Changes in Latin America: An Overview
2: Giovanni Andrea Cornia: Inequality Trends and their Determinants: Latin America over 1990-2010
3: Kenneth M. Roberts: The Politics of Inequality and Redistribution in Latin America's Post-Adjustment Era

Part II: Recent Inequality Changes in Six Representative Latin American Countries
4: Juan Ponce and Rob Vos: Redistribution without Structural Change in Ecuador: Rising and Falling Income Inequality in the 1990s and 2000s
5: Dante Contreras and Ricardo Ffrench-Davis: Policy Regimes, Inequality, Poverty and Growth: The Chilean Experience, 1973-2010
6: Véronica Amarante, Marco Colafranceschi, and Andrea Vigorito: Uruguay's Income Inequality and Political Regimes over 1981-2010
7: Raymundo Campos-Vazquez, Gerardo Esquivel, and Nora Lustig: The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989-2010
8: Carlos Acevedo and Maynor Cabrera: Social Policies or Private Solidarity? The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El Salvador
9: Stephan Klasen, Thomas Otter, and Carlos Villalobos Barría: The Dynamics of Inequality Change in a Highly Dualistic Economy

Part III: Main Policy Changes and Inequality during the Last Decade
10: Mario Damill and Roberto Frenkel: Macroeconomic Policies, Growth, Employment, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
11: Miguel Székely and Claudia Sámano-Robles: Trade and Income Distribution in Latin America: Is There Anything New to Say?
12: Saúl N. Keifman and Roxana Maurizio: Changes in Labour Market Conditions and Policies and their Impact on Wage Inequality during the Last Decade
13: Richard B. Freeman: What Can Latin America Learn from China's Labour Market Reforms?
14: Giovanni Andrea Cornia, Juan Carlos Gómez-Sabaini, and Bruno Martorano: Tax Policy and Income Distribution during the Last Decade
15: Guillermo Cruces, Carolina García Domench, and Leonardo Gasparini: Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America
16: Armando Barrientos: On the Distributional Implications of Social Protection Reforms in Latin America

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Interesante libro, pero no lo he podido conseguir en las librerías. ¿Hay alguna forma de solicitarlo a la biblioteca del Colmex?